Religion Quotes - Page 39

There is no god higher than truth.

90% of the mass in your body comes from empty space.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?

This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.

I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

If atheism is a religion, then off is a TV channel and bald is a hair colour.

Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism - it's turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in order to have a conscience, to know that, just because something is possible, it may not be a good thing to do.

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

We do not know how God created, what processes He used, for God used processes which are not now operating anywhere in the natural universe. This is why we refer to divine creation as special creation. We cannot discover by scientific investigations anything about the creative processes used by God.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny fraction of that many deaths on its conscience. There are scientists who will admit that there's not one iota of scientific evidence to support it.

Pope Francis said that atheists are still eligible to go to heaven. To return the favor, atheists said Popes are still eligible to go into a void of nothingness.

You live on Earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit.

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.